There are many times I am taking a note on my iPad or iPhone that I do not type anything within 30 seconds and my screen automatically locks. I either have to keep tapping on the screen or unlock it before I can start taking notes again. It would be great if there was an option to keep the screen awake while you are currently editing a note.
I see what you mean but I don’t think that’s a good idea. Most of the time you want to screen lock after a certain while to save battery life. Instead I would simply change your setting in the Settings.app for your phone to be less aggressively putting the display to sleep (longer timeout).
I understand your concern about battery life but taking/looking at notes in a meeting is one case that I think it could be helpful to keep the screen on all the time. It’s also why I requested it as an optional setting and not on by default.
Having this enabled only on Agenda, also means that I will save battery life and increase security because the timeout is shorter on all other apps.
Perhaps there’s a simple dropdown in the app settings like “Extend screen lock while editing notes:” with the following options
- Never
- 5 minutes
- 10 minutes
- Forever
Sorry, I think this is really a system level setting, it doesn’t make sense to vary this on a per app basis in our opinion.
This is a feature that I’m looking for as well. Several other note taking apps have this setting (good notes for example). Hope you change your mind. I want my device to sleep after 30 seconds in basically all cases except in note taking.
Thanks.